Special Notices

MFAH Online Book Club. Interested in carrying the enjoyment of your Great Books reading and discussion even further? Extend your discussion in conjunction with related art works through the Online Book Club at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It's easy! Just pick one of the works featured, read and discuss it as usual in your group, then come as a group to the MFAH to continue your discussion. A gallery educator (docent) will accompany you to help facilitate a dialog between the literary artist you have read and several visual artists whose works relate to the book selected. Just go to www.mfah.org/bookclub, then to "Book Club Visits", and fill out the request form.

Currently featured offerings are The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton.

To access a recently published article inspired by conversation in our Philosophy Café Group, please click here. Entitled, "Art and Thought – From Here to Eternity and Back Again", this article by HGBC President Eric Timmreck was published in the Fall 2009 edition of the Guild Palette, a newsletter of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

A Great Books Discussion Group for adults working through an upper level English as a Second Language course meets at Literacy Advance Houston, 2424 Wilcrest. We meet twice a month to express our ideas in English about the work we have read. In this way, we are increasing our knowledge of vocabulary and good writing as well as the relationship of literature to our common life.

30% of Houston adults cannot read. If you can read this, help someone who can't by contacting Frances Leland by email or Literacy Advance Houston.